Tompkins Square Park Riot (1988)

Tompkins Square Park Riot (1988) is located in New York City

The Tompkins Square Park Riot occurred on August 6–August 7, 1988 in New York City's Tompkins Square Park. Groups of "drug pushers, homeless people and young people known as 'skinheads'" had largely taken over the East Village park, but the neighborhood was divided about what, if anything, should be done about it. The local governing body, Manhattan Community Board 3, adopted a 1 a.m. curfew for the previously 24-hour park, in an attempt to bring it under control.^[2] On July 31, a protest rally against the curfew saw several clashes between protesters and police.^[3]

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